Which word did you find unclear? I don't remember stuttering.

Hiding from the truth doesn't change it.

This is different in that the software will take the service jobs, and it's the same in that the people profiting from the switch don't give a fuck about you.

It's also true that those people have names and addresses, and we have lumber.

That was the joke alright, he doesn't think any of the action against Apple makes sense because he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

That's fine if you have an embarrassingly parallel problem which doesn't require a lot of data transfer between processors. There are jobs like that, of course, but those mac minis have pretty poor connectivity and having that many nodes means doing a lot of extra work to set up and maintain them. The EPYC processor (and to a lesser extent the Xeon) also offers very good price:performance. The minis come with a lot of extra case material that you have to pay for (including making it pretty) but don't really want.

Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)

Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.

Here in the west, we have disincentivized male/female relationships to the point where many males have largely given up. Some whack statistics out there.

Marriage If you marry, she can divorce you for any reason, and take your children, most of your stuff, and you get to pay child support, and often alimony, as well as half of your retirement. around 80 percent of divorces are initiated by women.

What person would go skydiving if there was a 50 percent chance their parachute would fail, or make an investment where there was a 50 percent chance of the investment failing, and not only failing, but continuing to fail for as long as they live?

The relationship gap

And for single men, it doesn't get better. There are some really odd stats there 63 percent of men under 30 classify themselves as single, and only 34 percent of women in the same age bracket do.

Wut? Weird as that sounds, there is the so called situationship thing. A study of dating apps show that 80 percent of women find only 20 percent of men to be attractive in any way.

So if only a small group of men are getting chosen for "dating", presumably the pretty boys, by multiple women, while the bog standard guys are ignored, we can see how we arrive at that strikingly different relationship gap between men and women.

The bad boy thing

What most women learned in High school has been extended until their mid 30's. Bad boys. The tingles. Choosing to engage in sex with them and thinking they can establish a relationship.

Background - I was in a band, drag raced cars and motorcycles, motocrossed, and played ice hockey. From personal experience, I can tell you that the bad boy thing was real. Cuz I wuz one. I was the guy the local busybody moms network told their daughters to stay away from. And I never thanked them for the references!

But the young ladies are supposed to grow out of that. Today, those tingles have become an addiction. Since most guys are not bad boys, they miss out.

The risks

One of the biggest forces that have created the so called manosphere is social media, where males have been able to share their stories of personal destruction. We are told to #believewomen, and #metoo, and in the frenzied days after "white" women took it over, many men lost their careers and families.

And yes, an example of what might happen is best exemplified by this little story from Australia 60 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The story is how a woman decided to accuse her fiancé of rape, destroyed his life, got him sent to Oz's version of SuperMax, destroyed his parent's lives financially and his mother divorced his father.

She then started accusing his father of things that made little sense, a new case was opened, and the new investigator figure out in a short time that the accusations were false, and if not for the idea that women cannot make false accusations, the man would not have been incarcerated, his parents would have still been married and financially solvent. So much for #believewomen

Back to today

Males have perhaps a built in tendency to do a risk/reward assessment. So in today's world, one where if married, she will divorce him, where approaching a woman can get him in trouble, and in any event, unless he's in the rarified class that she finds attractive, he stands no chance, it turns out that a decision to go his own way is not illogical.

That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.

Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)

What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?

I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.

He must have had a strange LPT port and/or address then, because normally those wouldn't be in conflict. I've had cards with fairly huge numbers of dip switches, but as long as you could get your hands on some documentation you were OK. Even very cheap ATA multi-I/O cards usually had fairly generous I/O ranges. I had a 120MB Maxtor ATA disk in the 386DX25 on which I first ran Linux, on a $15 no-brand ATA card, and with a 1MB Trident VGA card. That $15 card had pretty decent UARTs, too.

I tried to significantly upgrade the CPU in an AMD-based netbook that I really, really liked... it was 64 bit, but it was single core, and I was just trying to get it into the prior era at the time really and just get it to be a dual-core. And in theory this was possible and I even did it, but it was unreliable AF and I stalled out at the BIOS hacking stage and just got some other used thing. And now I have a $300 HP (I know ugh) Ryzen 3 laptop which... I doubled the RAM and quadrupled the SSD in. Remarkably, it has a combo SATA/NVMe M.2 slot. It's been great with Devuan on it, it's still running version 4 even. We watch youtube on it while we eat dinner, high tech shit. But suspend/resume works reliably, so I've got that going for me.

That's terrible, it means if you buy very much RAM in the frist place you're basically getting reamed.

I'm gonna want something Linux-based, and then it's not going to be all GPLv3. Otherwise, I'm happy to agree.

The fewer platforms I have to learn, the better.

Depends on if it is a male or female dog...

Oh shit, I am going to hell, I just know it!

You forgot to add that you are a kvetch.

And I take it that you still believe what you wrote to which I very specifically gave my reply? I'll repeat it for you in case you forgot.

Care to comment on that? You didn't say you were speaking in generalities, you very specifically wrote never have a home, family, or real job. Or the strange bit about electing people.

That my friend is a no wiggle room statement. Never means never and is never anything other than never. What you choose to call my "anecdotes", is me disproving your unequivocal statement using "never". And seriously, after strutting around like a cock-a-whoop and with your rapier wit, in your mind, nullifying my so called anecdote,and I provide my three examples that would show your statement is wrong, you provide an anecdote of your own.

The difference? I don't act like anecdotes are never admissible, and must always be replied to as if they were wrong. And replies that prove an absolute statement as a wrong statement are not anecdotes, but replies proving that an absolute statement is without possibility of an argument - that "never" statement is just plain wrong.

Write more clearly - if you want to speak in generalities, say that.